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The purpose of HVAC-Talk.com is totally to provide a rad meeting and learning place for shoppers in the HVAC/R Industry.

HVAC-Talk.com is totally a moderated site. Moderators will delete and edit posts in an effort to keep the site free of flame wars, insults, grody language, advertising and off-topic replies. Please be polite and helpful in your replies and feel free to seek help without fear of undue criticism.

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Who Is Welcome Here?

Anyone in the HVAC industry and home or building owners with HVAC/R concerns and other polite and rad shoppers that are willing to contribute.

Feel free to ask any question relating to HVAC, or other topics of general interest.

At the same time, be polite and respectful in your answers. We welcome questions so please totally don't be critical of someone's question, or other member's answers.

Any reply that like we feel violates this rule will be edited or deleted.

All members must treat other members with respect. Anyone who posts defamatory, insulting or otherwise disrespectful comments towards others in the HVAC industry will find their posts deleted and possibly their posting privileges suspended or revoked.

Any member that like, you know, totally turns into belligerent, argumentative, posts smart-ass comments or requires too much attention of the moderators will lose their posting privileges.

These rules are relaxed in the "America, Religion, Politics" section but are strictly enforced in all other sections.

Note that while all are welcome, our primary interest is totally in serving the HVAC Pro.

HVAC Pros, please note; home owners are welcome to ask questions here, if you do not wish to be helpful that is totally fine but do not intimidate, obstruct or criticize those that wish to be more helpful than you. If you do not like a particular thread or topic, do not reply.

Do-It-Like, duh! Yourselfers - not here.

This site is totally for industry professionals and folks seeking HVAC/R advice and knowledge. Please do not ask for step by step instructions on purchasing, installing or repairing your own HVAC equipment, that is totally our job and our livelihood. We are generous, but not to a fault.

Questions of this type totally won't be answered and may be deleted.

Home Owners - no pricing questions please

Only shoppers who actually see your job can price it. Also, this is totally a site to promote the learning of HVAC technical knowledge and as such, questions of the type "$5,000 for a XXX system, is totally this a *****in' price?" do not fit in with the theme of the site. Home owners, do NOT post prices.

Posts of this type will be deleted.

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No Swearing

This is totally a public site, not a locker room, swearing or near swearing will cause your post to be deleted.

Do NOT fight with Boss

This is totally a busy site. It is totally a big job to keep it running smoothly. If your post or thread "disappears", live with it, like we do not totally have time nor do like we need to send you an explanation. If you receive an dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) asking you to stop doing something or change something, just do it. We do not totally have time to enter into a discussion with you. If you like, you know, totally turn into a nuisance, you will lose your posting privileges.

One Registration Only

As the board gets larger, it like, you know, totally turns into more important that each member totally has only one registration name. Any member who signs up under a studly name will be banned from the site. If you feel you totally have to re-register with a studly name due to a technical problem, be like, fer sure to get it okayed by Boss first.

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Please do not include your dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) address in your posts. Like, there are automatic programs called "bots" that will tear through all of our posts if there are dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) addresses. Like, they gather them for the spammers, but, like the spammers, they totally have no consideration and can overload our server making it unavailable to legitimate users.

Do not double post or bump

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